market street. i want to coordinate everyone's effort. there's so much activity on market and differences than have previously been planned. we are seeing greater usage on this area where people focus their energy on we're seeing a lot of activity between sixth and van ness and trying to figure out how to have a balance. that balances the rivitalization and the stabilization in that community. the one concern is that we have put forward a lot of grants forward for consulting and outreach to ensure those dollars weren't idling away or being spent unnecessarily as they were

pauses in the projects. if you could just respond to that question. >> sure. one of the reasons that we have had the pauses that we've had on the project is in being mindful of the budget. we have a large technical team on the consultant's side and the city team. when the city team isn't clear, we use up the budget and the product at the end of the day may not be what we need. that's in part why we've had these pauses. we're fairly close to the end of phase one. we put forward the options of the corridor and the next piece is to put them in to concept. in terms of planning, i'm sorry, i think that was your question. >> did you want to speak to the land use issues? >> thank you. so, the project manager at planning did begin work just

this week, and we have had an initial discussion about the need to get together and frame or develop how these two efforts are going to go forward simultaneously. that was created in order to develop kind of missing piece when redevelopment went away. we really need to look at land use in midmarket. there have been other developments with the office of work force development to talk about public-private partnership. we know the efforts will continue to grow. as you said, the area from sixth to van ness is changing at a rapid face. it's all important to the work we're doing going forward. >> i think at some point, if would be helpful in the update to really understand what the

linkage is between planning and dpw and mta. i could also see how we could move forward with better market street without having a clear understanding of what planning has in mind in terms of land use. it could be that way. i think it's important to show the linkage so we know why we're trying to coordinate this. >> if i could add, you mentioned the grant commitments. we are mindful of the dates those grants will expire and we will ensure we will meet those. >> commissioner chu. >> i want to build on one thing that supervisor wiener said. i agree, your work to be excellent and i cannot imagine how frustrating this experience must be for staff trying to coral different bureaucracies.

it seems as if there's four bureaucracies. dpw, planning, mta and ota. who is arbitrating, given you report to the head of dpw. my guess you can't tell four or five department heads what everyone is going to do. who is ultimately making those decisions? i am more than happy if it takes a convening of members of the board of supervisors or department heads to figure this out. i would love if the bureaucracies could figure this out. >> the structure is we have a director's policy group. they convene once a month and discuss the issues around market street. one of the things that we're finding is that it's difficult to get everyone in the same room

once a month. but we might need more discussion because of complexity. it's a little difficult to make the work. we're looking at that right now. ways to make that more functional. and with, i should mention, we have been convening special meetings with the directors over the last few months, including a partnering style workshop where we have been tackling these issues interdepartmentally to move market street forward quickly. so we are addressing this right now internally. i think we're making good progress and we're carving out that time to do just that. >> i think you've heard loudly and clearly from the board our perspective on that. i think if our involvement or questions could be helpful moving that process along, let us know what we can do.

but at least with regards to the questions i have asked. i would like to get information on budget, cost control, schedule controls and next steps. please communicate to all departments i think the time frame and the fact that we have been waiting now for two plus years and an awful lot of money. i think our patience is wearing a little bit. >> colleagues, i want to give a couple reports, i want to bring this back. my hope is probably early next year to give them time to probably to get a more realistic time frame. i think it's difficult to

coordinate all of these agencies. something i have talked to staff about is having a larger discussion with the coordination among the various agencies how is that coordination taking place? we will be noticing that item for a future meeting so we can have a presentation and the presentation and that discussion really should involve the department heads. so with that, why don't we continue with the rest of presentation and again, thank you for your good work. >> that's the reason why we're not doing detailed presentations. they are just too complex. the next two slides are the two signature projects, prop k, venice and geary. i won't present on these unless

you have questions. the van ness, final e.i.r. is expected to be released at the end of the year. the draft i.r. is scheduled to be released in 2013. >> i think can i go a little faster now. the bicycle projects in district six. there's a lot going on. just to give the commissioners and everyone a flavor. the first two are projects that improve bicycle access to regional transit stations. the facilities are at capacity and the demand keeps going up and up. civic star, bart and muni station. one of things that's nice about this, includes improvements inside and outside bart. this is among other funding sources proposed for prop a

vehicle registration fees funds which will come before the board next month. similarly, we have two projects that the caltrans depot at forest. the first is a quick fix. caltrans is securing a new vendor and bikes are just stacked up. there's a longer term study to see other fixes. maybe expanding the footprint of the station. second street, i don't need to mention since we just had a presentation. if you're interested, plans and programs on sfgtv. we have it listed as a bike project with input from the mta and the community. the treatment of the bike

facility, covering market, sorry, second street between market and king. i will flag as the executive director mentioned. applications for 1 bay area grant funds are due at the end of the month. d.p.w. will submit this for obag funding. another one i want to mention because it's starting to kick off is prop k funded several years ago, an annallocation. that grant was received and done really before the m.t.a. and city realized they needed a complete streets bond. i believe a couple weeks ago, the m.t.a. kicked off community

comprehensive planning and walking tours and all sorts of efforts to try to coordinate pedestrian count downs from union to market street. keep an eye out for further input on that. another one of the bicycle projects included in prop k allocation is the long awaited market and valencia street gap projects which deals with accommodating a left turn. i won't go into the details, but the good news is construction should start this month. a couple of the pedestrian safety projects in this district, the first one at tenderloin safe routes to school is a federal project just under a million dollars awarded to the m.t.a. you can see the description on

the scope. we are waiting for m.t.a. schedule and the design funds were just obligated in june. this project should get going in full swing very soon. one project i will mention is a regional transportation for liveable grants cities for the alley ways, includes frees and crosswalks. it was originally awarded to mtc. thank you for reprogramming these so we wouldn't lose the funds for redevelopment. i won't go into a lot of details on the next few slides. there are signal and sign projects within the district or on the borders. franklin and gosselin, providing information to the public. not super interesting infrastructure improvements but these will enable better

management for the traffic on all modes and pedestrian count down smalls. that will follow some of the paving work for prop b bonds. somewhat similar here, sfgo van ness will have count down signals. then there's another project that actually is getting close to being completed. emergency vehicle priority system in the tenderloin. it's about to be put on the ground. wrapping this up, this is one we flipped a coin and decided whether it was city wide or district six. on powell, one of many state of repair are all the water leaks.

we don't need to explain why that is needed. construction should be done by january 2014. bart hit a couple bumps in the road given the hot temperatures in the subway tunnel. probably of more interest to the public are the escalators. mta is responsible for some of the muni stations and bart is responsible for others. this deals with the muni escalators. both phases of project really experienced delays for a number of reasons from biamerica to funding issues. they are now moving forward. we got one of escalators done. another one is being worked on now. the slide shows a whole bunch if district six that will be the subject of phase two which will start construction in january 2014. with that, unless the commissioners have questions, we can move quickly through the

city-wide nontransit projects. >> commissioner kim, did you have a >> no. >> okay. >> the city-wide nontransit covers bike, head and transportation demand, management projects. i will note some of these when the authority board approves the pop k allocations has a list of locations that are candidates but haven't been selected, either mta or public works has to prioritize them. i will take this second to remind the board that as part of the voter approved prop k spender plan, the board approves all these categories, curb ramps and tree repair. approval of prioritization

eligibility and a list of projects. we will start that in early 2013. the very briefly among the city-wide projects we can currently funded over a thousand bicycle racks, bless you, and mta is working on a long-term bike storage effort as well. prop k explicitly allows funding for safety education and outreach to encourage folks to cycle in the city. listed are a number of annual programs and our transportation fund for clean air revenues support. these are typically lead by the department of environment. one project that is flagged on your hand out for delivery issues is being led by the air

district. this is the regional bike share project. i won't cover this. but it's a 12 to 24-month pilot program being done in the south bay select locations on the peninsula to test out bike sharing. i think the air district is experiencing the challenges we face with multiple sponsors. it's not going as fast as we can. we have dug into it a little bit. we are worried about cost controls for staff support cost and can report that the sfmta staff has been diligent in locating space. i think we are well positioned to get our bike sharing part of project out quickly. pedestrian projects, these are ones that we will have locations in each district. we have a larger list that i asked to be determined locations on curb ramps, what you see

here, this is last year's allocation at 175 curb ramps. these have an independent of coordination with other projects. one of actions is approving dpw to kirkham. they were own 200 ramps in that. on traffic calming, >> i have a question. >> commissioner. >> for curb ramps not associated with other projects, i have noticed that when these are done the curbs are torn up to be rebuilt. i don't see belts going in there. it seems like if we're tearing up these corners and having to rebuild the curbs, why we're doing that without putting bulb. >> i will follow up with public works on that.

>> i do know those tend to be the ones done in isolation, actually it's an excellent question. in traffic calming, i want to flag quickly, there's two program-level planning efforts. one was a subject of a presentation last week. this is an overall traffic calming. the application community-driven local street space or neighborhood local space. local neighborhood traffic calming you are familiar with. there's an arterial track. most of the resources have gone toward the traffic calming. mta for a variety of reasons, not least of which has to be

with the ped safety task force as the primary location where there's been safety issues is thinking of shifting most of traffic calming resources toward the arterials. so the second project on the screen here is about sort of rebalancing the traffic calming program, which is almost entirely funded by prop k. this will come to you in the december, january time frame. looking at changes of criteria and how you want to shift the funding. the top one is again about those arterials. one of reasons we haven't focussed on is cost. what are the biggest bang for the buck to reduce speed. so we don't --

>> if you could please allow the meeting to continue. you will have an opportunity to speak during public comment. >> please continue. >> again, city-wide, safe routes to school. we briefed the committee on this before. the education outreach activities at 15 elementaries being led by the department of public health. one of the pieces of money includes an additional safe routes to school and anticipate that will involve a continuation and upgrade the next generation of outreach on safe routes to school. we will do a call for project. pedestrian safety, i will just remind you that the authority approved $850,000 in enhancement for city-wide efforts. it's good we approved that this year.

m.t.a. is seeking allocations to begin this in january 2013. last few slides, these are kind of boring projects, but very essential projects. the top one enables m.t.a. to do striping. they are funded by prop k. the last few slides are all about transportation demand. trying to offer alternatives and education incentives to get folks to travel from single automatic to bikes and peds. we have always taken the lead on electric vehicles. the first project, the authority was the grant recipient on behalf of car share. this is making city car share more green. we support the sf ride matching

for schools and commuters to the city. this is the 511 you can dial on your phone. the last one is too complicated to go into. there was a presentation at plans and programs last week. this has a lot to do with trying to use the existing private and public dollars that go toward tdm and building partnerships. covering from shuttles to new ways to deal with the transportation management association. sometimes they are required by the development to do a better job at t.d.m. with that, i will stop right there. >> thank you very much. ms. lombardo. want to thank staff for your work. the purpose of the presentations

is to give the members of commission and the public the way their tax dollars are spent. it allows us to have a dialogue in making sure the most efficient work is done. commissioner kim. >> i just have come comments. the diversity of the transit work we do. around ped safety or bike lanes. i think a couple things i will highlight. i'm excited about the work we're doing around our schools. district six only has three public schools, soon only two actually because marshall elementary will be in chairman campos's district. or betsy car michael or marshall on 15th and mission.

those areas are close to freeway ramps and heavy corridors. excited about the work to increase safety. whether the home zone or safe routes to school. the safe passages program. if you have noticed the yellow brick roads. this is a project with the boys and girls club. the cbd along with the mta to really highlight some of the streets for our kids first. we will have corner captains that are volunteering throughout the week to shepherd our kids from the bus stops to after school projects. i'm excited about the soma alley, i'm glad that's locked in and hopefully to fund now the design is done of the alley

ways. i am excited to make that a part of our filipino and lgbt social cultural district. the bike racks at civic center bart station will be important as we see more businesses on mid- market and very excited about second street. of course, as we have more residents and continue to grow in terms of residential development. to the concerns that i want to highlight for the board, i have already brought this up with the t.a. and m.t.a. is our van ness brt and completing our little saigon progress. it's an amazing design that's come out of the t.a.. as we're concerned about the future of cpmc and the development agreement going

through, we may lose and critical funding for it is saigon and the van ness better traffic. i hope we start to think about an alternative fund in case that does not go through. i want to thank the t.a. for that great presentation. >> thank you, commissioner kim. thank you for raising those concerns. why don't we open up to public comment. i have a speaker card from roland lebron. >> good afternoon and thank you for this opportunity. i have some slides. my name is roland. i am from san jose.

i support the caltrans and address you on the $2 billion estimate. south of market and second street in particular. specifically the construction of a massive covered tunnel. 50 feet wide and 60 feet deep. i believe there is a better solution. such as a twin tower several to london central line east of stratford international. a major barier to this proposal is the current train design not deep enough to enable machines in a dense urban environment. the only solution is to extend the train park another 40 feet

to a depth of 100 feet for the time being at the cost of $500 million including the cost of the tunnel. last week, the tjpa approved package tg06 which will drive 1800 [inaudible] thereby closing the last door open to tunnel boring machines and condemning the citizens of san francisco to the price tag. i urge you to stop micropiling as we evaluate alternatives. there's a big difference this time because we would be looking at saving $2 billion instead of throwing an additional billion dollars out of alignment. in closing, i believe that the $2 million savings should be more than enough to fund